BIW & Closures Vehicle Launch Lead

Stellantis NV; Auburn (AL); Vor Ort; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Health insurance

Company vehicle

Family building benefit

Tuition reimbursement

Student loan refinancing

Volunteer hours

Retirement plans

Life & disability insurance

Zusammenfassung

Stellantis NV in Auburn, Alabama seeks an BIW / Closures Vehicle System Launch Manager to provide hands-on technical and cross-functional leadership for BIW and Closures throughout the program. The role focuses on program timing, build quality, engineering readiness, part availability, and rapid resolution of issues affecting vehicle builds.

You will own the process, drive decisions, remove roadblocks, and work with the VPE Dimensional Team to achieve dimensional convergence and continuous

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Welding Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience.
• Strong automotive engineering or manufacturing experience, BIW/Closure Systems and vehicle launches.
• Knowledge of BIW construction, closure systems, dimensional control, GD&T, weld and adhesive processes.
• Ability to lead cross-functional technical teams in a fast-paced vehicle launch.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and leadership capability to establish priorities and drive accountability.

Aufgaben

• Lead the BIW / Closures cross-functional team through program execution and vehicle builds.
• Serve as the Vehicle Engineering technical leader for BIW and Closures build execution.
• Establish clear cross-functional priorities and drive Engineering, Manufacturing, Supplier Quality, suppliers, Dimensional, and supporting teams toward common program objectives.
• Own resolution of build issues affecting BIW, Closures, body geometry, joining, fit, function, or manufacturing execution.
• Drive the team from issue identification through containment, root cause, corrective action, validation, implementation, and effectiveness verification.
• Remove roadblocks and escalate barriers preventing timely technical resolution.
• Maintain ownership until the solution is implemented and proven effective.
• Lead cross-functional execution to meet BIW / Closures program timing and vehicle build milestones while improving build quality.
• Ensure engineering deliverables, parts, tooling, manufacturing processes, dimensional activities, joining processes, and validation plans are ready to support each build phase.
• Identify risks to upcoming builds early and drive recovery plans before they impact program timing.
• Establish clear owners, deliverables, and timing for critical actions.
• Drive timely resolution of engineering and manufacturing issues that threaten vehicle build execution.
• Balance program timing with engineering rigor, ensuring schedule pressure does not result in accepting unresolved or recurring quality conditions.
• Use each program build to drive measurable improvement in product and process quality.
• Ensure unresolved issues have robust containment and a clearly defined path to permanent corrective action.
• Drive issues to closure rather than carrying known problems from one build phase to the next.
• Own the engineering quality of the BIW and Closures build.
• Partner with Manufacturing to ensure bodyshop processes consistently deliver the intended engineering requirements.
• Drive resolution of issues involving BIW assembly, Closures assembly, welding and joining, weld integrity, adhesives, hemming, sealing interfaces, fixtures, tooling, assembly sequence, part interfaces, body geometry, fit and function, and dimensional stability.
• Ensure manufacturing processes produce repeatable quality rather than relying on manual adjustment, repair, or rework to achieve an acceptable vehicle.
• Drive continuous reduction of build adjustments, dimensional corrections, repairs, and recurring defects.
• Partner with the VPE Dimensional Team to drive BIW and Closures dimensional convergence.
• Drive vehicle-level dimensional problem solving and ensure the organization understands the true contributors to variation.
• Use dimensional and measurement data to distinguish part variation, tooling conditions, fixture conditions, joining processes, assembly process, measurement variation, and product design conditions.
• Drive effective short-loop problem solving between the bodyshop, Engineering, Manufacturing, suppliers, and dimensional/metrology teams.
• Ensure critical product characteristics are identified, measured, understood, and controlled.
• Drive improvements in dimensional repeatability and process capability, not simply achievement of nominal dimensional targets.
• Support correlation between measurement systems, fixtures, tooling, parts, subassemblies, BIW, and complete vehicle results.
• Drive corrective actions when data demonstrates instability, excessive variation, or dimensional drift.
• Ensure dimensional lessons learned are incorporated into product, tooling, and manufacturing process improvements.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Cross-functional teams

Problem solving

Communication

Decision making

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Related technical discipline

Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt

Tools

CMM

Laser scanning

Inline vision systems

Jobbeschreibung

Stellantis NV in Auburn, Alabama seeks an BIW / Closures Vehicle System Launch Manager to provide hands-on technical and cross-functional leadership for BIW and Closures throughout the program. The role focuses on program timing, build quality, engineering readiness, part availability, and rapid resolution of issues affecting vehicle builds.

You will own the process, drive decisions, remove roadblocks, and work with the VPE Dimensional Team to achieve dimensional convergence and continuous